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Could not get not finish


Every white person in the first 30-40 minutes I saw were shown as racist.

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I went to school with a lot of kids. Most of them weren't bullies and truth be told, all these years later I probably wouldn't remember half their names. But the ones who were my bullies - you bet your life I remember every last one of them.

Is it any wonder that a biopic about a black guy who spent a significant portion of his younger life being treated like crap because of his skin color - or watching other blacks being treated like crap because of their color - displays a high degree of racism from it's white cast? The guy's racist encounters would've been the resonating moments of his life, the memories that stuck with him, haunted him and shaped his world view. And if your going to reduce a 90-year old life down to a 120 minute movie, you really have to cut out everything but the most pivotal moments.

Not to mention the fact that, by modern standards, 1950s culture was racist, especially in the deep south.

That being said, this film did it's fair share, IMHO, to demonstrate that not all whites were racist in those days. e.g. Note how, when the elder son was with his protest group preparing to stage their protest at the diner, one of their fellow protesters was a white guy, who was reluctant to use the n-word in their training exercises, even when ordered by the boss. He took his fair share of blows in the protest itself.


"Feeling Stupid? I know I am!" - Homer J. Simpson

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one of their fellow protesters was a white guy, who was reluctant to use the n-word in their training exercises, even when ordered by the boss. He took his fair share of blows in the protest itself.


Yah...noted. But even in WW2 movies about genocidal Nazis taking over the world and torturing guys from the Resistance, there is often one nice good German.

Even in 'V" the series, even among the extra-terrestrial lizard invaders, there was one very decent reptile who can't hack the shame and comes over to our side.

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The guy in the protest group has been mentioned, and you even quoted that post. But I have to also bring up the old lady in the beginning, who took Cecil in when his father was killed and allowed him to get training as a butler. And except for Richard Nixon, it seems to be that all the presidents (and also Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan) were given a positive portrayal.

Intelligence and purity.

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look...it's a black movie.

And the real objective , apart from to remind us what ugly fkd-up scum we white people have always been, is to remind us how great it was when Oprah's friend Obama finally became president..the journey became completed.

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